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Oops, I fucked up... motherboard not shipping from Amazon. Oh well, I guess I'll just see what happens instead of trying to go back and cancel and re-order that one thing. Damn, I wondered why it was a few bucks cheaper than the item I looked at the other day. (but who looks a gift horse in the mout...

Well, I'm a master of procrastination (doesn't help that I still love my current computer) but there's no turning back now :mrgreen: One stop shopping: amazonpartsbuy.jpg Next is going to be the video card, as that's also potentially volatile. (anything with memory and especially video cards for GPU...

Cable management to me means having them loose, so they are easy to get at without having to remove hardware from the case. When I hooked everything up in this one, I took a picture of it so you all could laugh at me. Ugly floppy ribbon cable draped from top to bottom too. I have a plexi side pane, ...

It wasn't in too bad a state when I got poking/cleaning/disabling. It had actual McCrappy Antivirus and the web shield installed though, I was surprised to see. I promptly removed that. It also had Microsoft Office 365 both English and French editions fully installed. Not having that. We're not goin...

I wish I had "wget" lol

(I've either got to use Microsoft Edge to download Firefox, or transfer the download via USB stick. I don't want to run Microsoft Edge even once. I'll be deleting the icons for it so nobody does)

It's even worse than that, the Acer setup won't proceed without connecting to a network. There's no way to bypass it, no way to kill it (alt+F4 doesn't work) and the only option if you can't connect to a network is to "use another device to access the following troubleshooting steps" Fuck ...

I got the laptop today, it actually came from Indianapolis by FedEx so it took a few days (ordered on Saturday). I haven't powered it up yet, as it's been on cold trucks for days, but everything looks to be in order. It was shipped in 3 cartons within each other. A shipping carton, with the laptop i...

Oh wow, look at the price on that monitor. That would almost put me off, thinking it would be too crappy. I would have never considered that, but if that's what you're using it's got to be pretty good. That just incentivized me (probably half the cost I would have considered for a display with fast ...

Thanks man, that looks pretty good. I didn't mean for you to spend all that time. I wasn't sure if the TPM was something they let you disable anymore since it's for "security" against you. I think that's the board I'm going for then. I'm just sitting here thinking about all the shit I'm go...

Yeah, my nephew has a good MSI board. He's done a few builds pretty much exactly like his with his friends, too. Though, my record with Gigabyte has been very good. They use good capacitors and shit. No way I'm buying that one though, "Warning! Choking Hazard -- Small Parts. Not for children un...

I'm probably going to go with that i9-12900K then, it should be enough CPU. I am still undecided on motherboard.

Something that I'm going to be doing in the next few days (hopefully, whenever dad's new laptop comes). There are a few ways to do this. This is a pretty good link here, with screenshots and stuff, so I'll post it and summarize a few things https://www.windowscentral.com/how-set-windows-11-without-m...

I might as well start a thread for this. Well, it looks like the Rocket Lake (11th gen i9) plan is bust, due to the availability of Z590 boards. I know if I look, I'd find one, but I'm unwilling to trust unknown retailers. Currently I'll shop at Amazon (still have Prime) or Canada Computers. I won't...

I don't get how an acorn would spook a cop to start firing in a panic. There are some excitable boys that probably shouldn't have guns.

Testicling this media embed extension I just installed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bBdXdAhzBg You just have to paste the URL (I was confused by an old FAQ entry for the addon that indicated using [embed] [/embed] tags but that neither is necessary nor recognized). It's changed to [media] [/med...

Me too, I like Acer. Good quality for the money (at least the hardware, maybe housings and shit not so much). I said "we're getting an Acer... I'll go to their web site and pick a model"

Last time we bought two laptops for the kids direct from Acer, the shipping was excellent.

Aspire 5 Laptop - A515-58M-56BP https://store.acer.com/en-ca/aspire-5-laptop-a515-58m-56bp We ordered this for my Dad yesterday, he needs to have his own surf buggy because Mom is on the PC a lot. The CPU is "Intel® Core™ i5-1335U processor Deca-core 1.30 GHz" (low base frequency for power...

Something I forgot to mention: cat >>../mozconfig <<END # Arch upstream has it in their PKGBUILD, ALARM does not for aarch64: #ac_add_options --disable-elf-hack There is no need to --disable-elf-hack. That is a useful method of reducing relocation overhead in that big libxul.so. Distributors routine...

Updated PKGBUILD for LibreWolf 123.0 Changes: pkgver and pkgrel, sha256sum of librewolf tarball. If not for wanting the checksums to match, I'd have just had you change the pkgver lol The patch is still the same, comment out the patch line if you don't want it. I tested this as far as prepare(), you...

So Librewolf 123.0-1 has been released https://codeberg.org/librewolf/source/releases/tag/123.0-1 I'm going to have to build this on Arch for now (I don't want to downgrade my LLVM, for when 18.1.0 is a release it'll be easier to upgrade (blast DESTDIR through /usr instead of having to manually dele...

I started up Borderlands 3 tonight and there's a new splash screen... it's the movie cast. It's still a ways off, Aug. 2024.

There's also a pretty good trailer out now
https://www.imdb.com/video/vi2461582873/?ref_=tt_vi_i_1

It sounds like he's doing well, and taking care of his health. He can have more good years. It doesn't sound like he's in mental decline... pensive as always

I set up a build in Arch before bed last night (my way, not PKGBUILD). LLVM 17.0.6, Rust 1.76.0 with my WASI stuff dropped in. I used -mtune=nehalem because the LLD linker will crash on libxul with LTO. That's still better than a flat build with -march (benchmark scores). Arch skipped LLVM 16 altoge...

It looks like my problems with LLVM 18.1.0 and Firefox go deeper. My plain build last night was fine, but when compiled with profiling hooks, the browser won't run for profiling. I'm doing a manual build (stepping through the commands rather than script and I'll try profiling in my X11 session inste...

That sure does look like something I could play, a strategy game (choices) but third person shooter perspective and action. So far the requirements are only listed as Windows 10 and 64 bit processor, but that'll just be because they aren't determined yet.

Shit... probably somebody's silly pet that got loose. I don't think tarantulas are native

Heheh... I always wished I could do that, go back to medieval times with machine guns and shit lol

I'll have to watch for that one

So that Rust 1.78-nightly wasn't any good for building Firefox. Too many of their crates are not compatible. However, that doesn't really matter at this time because I have a perfectly good Rust 1.76.0 with LLVM 17.0.6 built in that I just put back. The benefit of static linking. LLVM 18.1.0 itself ...

Yeah, some of these LLVM based tools actually crash when they hit some conditions. After upgrading my LLVM to 18.1.0-rc3 I first tried to compile the current stable Rust 1.76.0 and it failed so horribly that rustc segfaulted. It got most of the way through, built the rustc compiler and std library, ...

I decided to try my luck with LLVM 18.1.0-rc3 since it's almost ready. What the hell, there's a reason I dropped all shared dependencies on its libraries. It's disabled for mesa... I use ACO only and even Rust now I link to it statically. At least I can get a new Rust build (bootstrap) off the groun...